Under the deal, IBM developers will create stacks for POWER systems using Xilinx accelerators and tie them into OpenStack, Docker and Spark. Xilinx will create POWER versions of its software tools. Xilinx has also become an OpenPOWER Foundation member.

The Xilinx partnership is the headliner in a series of POWER and OpenPOWER moves. OpenPOWER was created as a counterweight to Intel's dominance in the data center.

Other OpenPOWER moves include:

Mellanox rolled out its first smart network switch for OpenPOWER architecture.

NEC also will use IBM's coherent accelerator processor interface and said its ExpEther Technology was available.

E4 Computer Engineering and Penguin Computing launched new systems based on OpenPOWER designs using IBM's Power8 processors and Nvidia's GPUs.

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